Wild strawberry (plug)

Fragaria virginiana

Wild strawberry

Height: 1ft or less

Sun: sun - part shade

Soil: moist, well draining

Bloom Time: spring flowers, summer fruit

Groundcover

Fragaria virginiana, also known as Virginia strawberry, is a cool season native ground cover, loved for its abundant small, delicate white flowers in the spring, and for delicious mid-summer fruit. Fragaria virginiana is stoloniferous, spreading above ground via runners into a dense mat. Their leaves are a beautiful green, trifoliate, and toothed. Virginia strawberry grows best in full sun to partial shade environments with well draining but moist soils. Fragaria virginiana fruit is smaller than your typical market strawberry, though considered to be sweeter. Fragaria virginiana provides various insects, birds, and animals with an abundance of food, acting as a valuable resources to specialize native bees, butterflies, moths, black bears, box turtles, and various other bird species with important spring and summer food sources.